THE GOOD ENOUGH MOTHER PODCAST
Rage and Anger in Motherhood
September 2021
MOTHERHOOD, MOM GUILT, MOTHERS ANGER, THE BAD MOTHER, CULTURAL TABOOS, PODCAST EPISODE
with writer, workshop facilitator, and occasional public artist, Minna Dubin
In this conversation, we reflect on Minna’s experience of publishing on this taboo topic, as well as her journey in writing a book about ‘mom rage’ due out in 2023 (available for pre-order in 2022 through her website below).
Minna is a writer, workshop facilitator and occasional public artist, located in California. Her essays and reported stories on motherhood and identity have appeared in outlets like The New York Times, Parents, HuffPost, The Forward, Hobart, and The Philadelphia Inquirer.
I ask Minna about her experience of writing a book about such a taboo topic, and she shares some insights from those she has interviewed.
We reflect on the cycles of anger and guilt, shame spirals, factors that exacerbate maternal rage, the privilege that is drawn on in order to talk about this topic, how ‘speaking things into existence’ can make them seem more real, and why we are working to resist pathologization while still acknowledging the linking of maternal rage/anger with maternal mood disorders.
What remains ‘under the surface’ in Motherhood and is still so taboo to talk about directly?
‘MOM-RAGE’
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A conversation that challenges the dominant paradigm on how we raise our children.
Meet
Minna
Minna Dubin is a writer, workshop facilitator, and occasional public artist in Berkeley, California. Her essays and reported articles on motherhood and identity have appeared in outlets like The New York Times, Salon, Parents, HuffPost, The Forward, Hobart, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. She is the recipient of an artist enrichment grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and has been awarded writing residencies at InCahoots, WordSpace Studios, Kentucky Foundation for Women’s Hopscotch House and Lacawac Sanctuary.
Minna is currently working on a book about “mom rage” for Seal Press/Hachette (2023) in ten-minute increments when not eating chocolate and texting in the bathroom, hiding from her children.
Minna Dubin published two articles in The New York Times on maternal rage.
You can read Minna’s articles that we refer to in this episode here:
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